Biden Boils Over

VP Biden: Democrats Will Keep Control of Congress This Fall

(By Karen Travers, ABC News) - A fired-up Vice President Biden said today that despite the dire predictions from pundits, Democrats will keep control of both the House and the Senate after the midterm elections.

“The reports of the death of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated -- greatly exaggerated,” he said at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in St .Louis today. “I'm here to tell you that on November the 3rd…this coming election, there will be in Washington, D.C. a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate.”

The always loquacious Biden told the Democratic Party’s rank and file members that if it were not illegal, “I'd make book on it.”

Biden hammered the opposition, calling them the “Republican tea party,” and said they are offering voters the same failed agenda of the past, albeit one “on steroids.”

“This ain't your father's Republican Party. This is the Republican tea party,” he said to applause from the party faithful. “[Voters are] going to begin to see a Republican Party that's a combination of the old failed policies of the Bush administration, the old neoconservative notions about international relations as well as economic policy, combined with a new set of draconian ideas basically on steroids, the old process -- literally.”